[patch] Fixing ACPI to ignore the special 'Ones' value

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Tue Oct 31 16:00:33 PST 2006


On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 22:46 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> As discovered in : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348201
> 
> ACPI gives out the special 'Ones' value for rate when it's unable to
> calculate the true rate.
> 
> We should set the rate zero, and wait for the BIOS to stabilise for the
> few BIOS's that give 0xffff as the very first entry after an AC state
> change.
> 
> Patch attached. It's tested to work by Pierre Ossman, so is this okay to
> commit?

Yea, please do. Thanks.

     David




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